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The transnational gangs, drug trafficking organizations and Muslim terrorists have taken advantage of American apathy and the lack of will in Latin America. They have formed alliances and united against U.S. interests.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud was angry at his parents for keeping him from jihad and had thought about carrying out an operation, "something like Mumbai," since he was 17. On the two-year anniversary of the shooting and bombing attack on a Mumbai, India, hotel that killed 166 people, Mohamud pressed the buttons on a cell phone he thought would trigger an explosion, creating a "spectacular show" and killing hundreds at Pioneer Courthouse Square, the government alleges.

As an American Muslim, I’ve come to recognize, sadly, that there is one common denominator defining those who’ve got their eyes trained on U.S. targets: MANY of them are Muslim—like the Somali-born teenager arrested Friday night for a reported plot to detonate a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Ahmed handed over video of northern Virginia subway stations, suggested using rolling suitcases rather than backpacks to kill as many people as possible and offered to donate money to Al-Qaeda's cause overseas.

The second edition of an online al Qaeda magazine has surfaced with frank essays, creatively designed imagery, and ominous terror tips such as using a pickup truck as a weapon and shooting up a crowded restaurant in Washington.

The Pakistani-born Shahzad was unrepentant during sentencing, the New York Daily News reports. Shahzad, before the sentence was delivered in Manhattan Federal Court on Tuesday, warned Americans to "brace yourself" for future attacks.

INTERPOL issued the global alert to its 188 member countries today, after receiving a request from Pakistan's Minister of the Interior Rehman Malik, who contacted Secretary General Ronald K. Noble to warn law enforcement of the increased terrorist threat.

During his keynote address at POLICE-TREXPO East 2010, Islamist terrorism expert Steven Emerson warned law enforcement officers about the threat of radical groups who pose as moderates to gain traction in American society. Betsy Brantner-Smith, a Calibre Press Street Survival trainer, interviews Emerson in a video courtesy of PoliceOne.

Islamist terrorism expert Steven Emerson discusses the stealth jihad movement and tells you what you need to know about the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. Emerson, who sat down with POLICE Editor David Griffith after speaking at POLICE-TREXPO East, advises LEOs to use intelligence and informants within known Muslim organizations to penetrate stealth jihadist cells. Emerson is the executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and was a reporter at CNN and "U.S. News & World Report." He has produced award-winning documentaries and books on jihadists, including his current "Jihad Incorporated."

Emerson showed documents outlining the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy for penetrating, subverting, and infiltrating the United States in order to advance sharia (Muslim law) and establish a worldwide Muslim state called a "caliphate."

In May 2004, they traveled together to Cairo, Egypt, where they hoped to make contact with the mujahedeen, receive training, and be placed in either Iraq or Afghanistan to fight U.S. troops. They returned to the U.S. where they came in contact with an undercover informant and sought military training.

The young police officer credited with making the case against two New Jersey men nabbed on their way to Somalia to wage violent jihad is the latest example of the department's use of a special cadre of undercover officers to observe - and infiltrate - extremist groups in the Muslim community.

The lengthy investigation of an undercover New York Police Department officer produced recorded conversations that led to the arrests Saturday of two New Jersey men who plotted to kill American soldiers.

The son of a mechanic and a proud "car guy," Det. John Wright located the first and most important link in the complex chain that led to the bombing suspect: the vehicle identification number on the Nissan Pathfinder parked on W. 45th St.

Colleen LaRose, who lived in the suburbs of Philadelphia, had linked up with Islamist terrorists overseas to carry out the murder of Lars Vilks, who had depicted the prophet Mohammed's head on the body of a dog.

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